Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

Awards:   Winner of John Burroughs Medal 2021
Author:   William Bryant Logan
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
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9780393358148


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   12 June 2020
Format:   Paperback
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  • Winner of John Burroughs Medal 2021

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Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn't destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach.

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Author:   William Bryant Logan
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.266kg
ISBN:  

9780393358148


ISBN 10:   0393358143
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   12 June 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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... this vividly insightful exploration of tree regeneration. -- Nature William Bryant Logan's vision of a world in which humans and trees work together to mutual benefit-a world that has existed in the past and can exist again in the future-is cause for deep joy, for celebration and hope. -- Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees


William Bryant Logan's vision of a world in which humans and trees work together to mutual benefit-a world that has existed in the past and can exist again in the future-is cause for deep joy, for celebration and hope. -- Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees ... this vividly insightful exploration of tree regeneration. -- Nature


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William Bryant Logan is a practicing arborist and the author of four acclaimed books on nature: Sprout Lands, Dirt, Oak, and Air. He is on the faculty of the New York Botanical Garden and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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